Agabus alexandrae sp. n. from Morocco, with a molecular phylogeny of the Western Mediterranean species of the A. guttatus group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Insect Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 253-262

  Ribera, Ignacio ^a   Hernando, Carles ^b   Aguilera, Pedro ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Museu de Zoologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGABUS ALEXANDRAE; AGABUS GUTTATUS; COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE;

EID: 0035605703     PISSN: 1399560X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187631201X00191     Document Type: Article

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